The expats is an entertaining story which I enjoyed, but it is not a typical action packed spy thriller.
Kate is a former CIA agent living as an expat in Luxembourg after her husband, Dexter, receives an offer to be an network security consultant for a bank (he is deliberately vague about who his employer and clients are).
Kate soon meets another expat wife, Julia. Julia and her husband, Bill, become good friends with Kate & Dexter. At that point, Kate begins to suspect that Julia and Bill are hiding something and she is unsure if it has to do with her CIA past or her husband's mysterious job.
As I mentioned, there is not a lot of action in this story. It is written from Kate's point of view and the twists come as Kate figures them out. Much of the story revolves around Kate's internal struggles with trust and her past actions. I actually found Kate to be a very believable and relatable character. While she is ex-CIA, something that is not particularly relatable, she is also a wife and a mom who is struggling with trying to make a new life with her family, while simultaneously keeping secrets and suspecting that her husband is doing the same.
The story switches between two time periods, but there are also multiple flashbacks to other time frames. Most of the story takes place when the family first moves to Luxembourg, but there is also a story thread that takes place in present day Paris 2 years later. Eventually the first storyline catches up to the second. While I was able to keep up with the time switching, it did take some concentration.
Overall, I really enjoyed this story and think it would make a great beach read. Although it is a spy thriller, I think it is definitely targeted more towards female readers who will relate to Kate and her internal struggles, rather than readers who prefer a lot of action in their thrillers.
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